China Hit By Severe Drought

JINAN — Shandong Province in east China is suffering its worst drought in half a century, which has left tens of thousands of people short of drinking water and huge swathes of farmland too dry to plant, authorities said Wednesday.

From September 23 to date, Shandong received an average of nine millimeters of rainfall, 86 percent below the average of previous years, said Yin Changwen, spokesman of the Shandong Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.

About 240,000 people in the province are short of drinking water, and about 27.58 million mu (1.84 million hectares) of cropland is suffering from drought.

The dry-spell will likely continue, with no rain or snow forecast for the near future.

The provincial government has tapped underground water and transported water to drought-hit areas, said Yin, adding that it would take more steps to combat the drought.

Meanwhile, a drought also continues in northern Shanxi Province.

Since November 1 to December 21, the average precipitation in the province was just 1.7 millimeters, 89 percent below the average of the previous years, said Jin Ning, of Shanxi Climate Center on Wednesday.

The drought began in November and since then no rain or snow has fallen in one-third of Shanxi’s cities and counties, Jin said.

This year lingering droughts have plagued Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, in China’s north and east.

The current cold snap sweeping the country is unlikely to bring rain or snow to the drought-hit areas, said Zhou Bin, an expert with the China Meteorology Administration’s National Climate Center, on Tuesday.

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Isaiah Chapter 30 Verses 20 – 21

Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, This is THE WAY; walk in it.

Sir Isaac Newton

About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.